"There's something profoundly strange about seeing a perfect sphere sitting in the middle of nowhere. It doesn't belong there in the way a building or a bridge would, yet somehow it looks like it's been there forever. That's the magic of Ninho Globo, a monumental stone installation by Paris-based studio Atelier Yokyok that just landed in the windswept landscape of eastern Portugal."
"Atelier Yokyok, a four-person team founded by architects Samson Lacoste and Luc Pinsard (later joined by Laure Qaremy and Pauline Lazareff), built this sphere by hand with the local community. This wasn't a case of a design team parachuting in with prefab materials and machines. They used the schist that's native to this region, honoring the geological identity of the place while creating something that feels both ancient and futuristic."
"What really gets you is how the piece plays with your sense of scale. From far away, Ninho Globo looks planetary, like a dark moon that's settled into the landscape. The name itself means "Global Nest" in Portuguese, and that double meaning is intentional. Is it a celestial body? A giant nest? A seed pod waiting to crack open? It refuses to be just one thing, and that ambiguity is part of its power."
Ninho Globo sits on a rocky plateau in Salvaterra do Extremo on the Portugal–Spain border. The sphere measures five meters and is built entirely from local black schist, a layered rock that cleaves into flat slabs. Atelier Yokyok, founded by architects Samson Lacoste and Luc Pinsard and later joined by Laure Qaremy and Pauline Lazareff, constructed the work by hand together with the local community. The form oscillates between celestial and organic readings, evoking a moon, a nest, or a seed pod. A purposeful fissure called the "Canyon" bisects the sphere and grants entry to a hollow chamber, where scale reverses for the visitor.
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